Cale Birk

Cale Birk is the District Principal of Innovation for School District #73 in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. Drawing upon his experiences as a school-based administrator over the past 14 years, Cale believes we must model the learning that we want for our students at every level: from the classroom to the board room, we need to approach every class, faculty meeting, professional learning day, administrative meeting or Parent Advisory Council session as an opportunity to create learning experiences that build capacity at every level within our organizations. Cale’s sessions have a very hands-on approach because he is passionate about utilizing engagement strategies that participants can immediately apply in their own schools and districts.Over the last few years, Cale has presented on numerous topics in Canada and the United States including Utilizing Instructional Rounds, Implementing Professional Learning Communities, Restructuring Schools For Student Success, The Engaging Administrator, and now his latest project, Frugal Innovation in Education. Cale is working with schools and districts to co-develop common educational values, to determine the obstacles that contradict these values and to reframe these obstacles as design challenges and opportunities to innovate. By bringing together the concepts of vision development, Instructional Rounds, Professional Learning Communities, deeper learning, and technology, Cale builds the capacity of administrators and teachers to embrace the day-to-day parameters in education in creating dynamic learning experiences in the K-16 system An avid user of social media, Cale currently publishes “The Learning Nation” (thelearningnation.blogspot.com). You can follow Cale on Twitter (@birklearns).